Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.